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I don't care if people like and own fancy cables, but I do care when I see posts trying to convince new people to spend a huge amount on wire when they are budgeting $1000 for a receiver and $2000 on speakers. Spending any extra money on better speakers and using monoprice wire is money better spent IMHO. People are free to believe anything, but when they try to convince others that these beliefs are facts if when I start debates.

X-Curve is high frequency attenuation only. It should not affect low frequency extension at all.

That's the case with my (older) KPT-100, but each crossover is different of course.

I slide my two-seater HT set over and sit in the middle to listen to stereo; imaging is everything!

The specs include the X-Curve high-frequency attenuation: 70Hz-20kHz +/- 3dB per X curve 49Hz -10dB So they are not 3 dB down at 20 KHz...They are around 10 dB down. There's a frequency response plot in the PDF spec sheet. It would be great if the X-Curve EQ was defeatable through a switch. Other note: Four threaded inserts in the cabinet rear are in a bolt pattern width of 2.75” (6.985cm) by 5” (12.7cm) height and accept four included 1/4-20 x 1.125 UNC 2A screws for a mounting bracket attachment. I would attach a 1/2" piece of plywood to the back of the speaker using those screws, and secure the plywood to the wall using a metal french cleat. No need to drill any new holes in the speaker when doing that.

$250 Khorns? Wow.

Nice looking ones too!

Plasma is where it's at for affordable high-quality picture (uniform deep blacks and color accuracy). LEDs just don't compare and OLEDs are not affordable.

I love my 60-inch F8500!

Diana Krall's Live in Paris is also one of my top concerts, but was not available on Bluray until 2014, but it's Region B2 and I can't play this. Love the drum solo on Devil may care.

Jimjimbo did not quote the whole statement where he declared it bogus however the whole statement said "from the point of sound quality" and I believe the whole statement is what he was referring to as "bogus". There is more to a good speaker wire and good sound quality than just being a large gauge conductive wire. The exact quote that was omitted is: The biggest issue in speaker cables, from the point of view of sound quality, is simply conductivity Nothing bogus about that. Conductivity is the biggest issue by far, and it is controlled mostly by gauge.

Note that my 120-icnch screen is 16x9... It's effectively a 113-inch screen when I watch 2.35:1 content. Strangely, two of the last 3 Blurays I rented were 16x9!

Well, sorry, this is basic bogus. -----courtesy of blue jeans cable----is not a very smart statement-----Simply being a large cable does not equal a quality cable......Quality of a cable is born from a combination of factors, a few of which are purity of the wire, construction, shielding, and size (and that's not all). You say that the claim that the simplification 'the larger the wire, the lower the resistance, and the higher the conductivity' is bogus, then go on to talk about quality of a cable and not its conductivity. That claim is far from bogus.

Immersive! Yeah, we love it at that distance. The second row is still okay at around 16 feet, I prefer sitting up front.

I sit shy of 10 feet from my screen and can't see the weave, just FYI.

You said "DVD player" in the title and once in the post, but I assume you really want to play Blurays, right? If you are not (1) upscaling video, (2) video processing (e.g., Darbee) or (3) sending decoded audio through analog cables, then really any $50 Bluray player will work about the same. Spending more gets you features (wifi, better wifi, more CPU processing for faster smart content interaction, better smart menu interface, extra USB slots including one in the front and one ot more in the back, more output options such as twin HDMI, optical and coax audio outputs, multi-channel analog outputs and better DACs, better build quality, longer warranty, better remote, maybe metal with backlighting). The fancier Oppos just about qualify as pre-amp/processors, switching digital inputs and converting to analog with volume control to output directly to power amplifiers.

There are some in the gallery section too. See link in my sig for mine.

For me, it's PCM stereo if it images well, otherwise I go with one of the surround formats. I don't have this particular title...

Great choice! The 5300b is a steal. I got a Samsung 60-inch F8500 a little over a month ago; stunning picture!

Seems like retrofitting would be even worse, that's why I thought the EluneVision motorized would be nice. Just mount the center and pull this thing down in front of it. Done. Trim out the ends with big RF-7ii's. Our Seymour is motorized. We didn't bother with curtains, masks, or special lights, etc. It is mounted on the ceiling in a music room / library, which becomes a home theater at the push of a button. We do have black-out shades on the windows. The screen descends grandly and just fits between our two Klipschorns. We've thought of playing Thus Spake Zarathustra as this happens. The Belle Klipsch center is raised so the tweeter is the same height as those of the Khorns, and the Belle is buried in the wall (there is a bump-out behind it, to make room); the screen comes down in front of it, about a foot from the wall. The flush mounting of the Belle was expected to increase the bass a bit, and it does, producing a -3dB point below 40 Hz. For movies, that doesn't make a difference because of crossing over to the sub. It takes three strong individuals to mount the screen on the ceiling. My elunevision is also motorized. It also descends grandly and just fits between two Klipschorns. My La Scala center is also buried in the wall (there is a bump-out behind it, to make room). The screen comes down in front of it, about 6 inches from the wall. It takes me two individuals to mount the screen on the ceiling. Mine is slightly inset into the ceiling; photo:

I have an AT screen to hide just one speaker and it's worth it to me just to have it at eye level instead of pushing an opaque screen up next to the ceiling. It drops about 6 inches in front of the speaker, but I did that for another reason and not to clear the speaker by that much. Mine is an electric elunevision audioweave: http://www.elunevision.com/audioweave-tab-tensioned.html

Not the way i remember it. He had stopped moving at that point. Even if he hadn't, she had her feet caught in ropes and could have pulled him back.

I don't disagree that 60-70 Hz hits you in the chest. I didn't know that resonance is the reason; the wavelength is very long so that's not exciting any oscillations, so it has to be frequency (time domain). Do organs internally bounce back from a hit at that frequency? The chart here http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/37543/does-the-human-body-have-a-resonant-fequency-if-so-how-strong-is-it shows lots of response at very low frequencies (around 10 Hz) and the chest wall does indeed show up at 50 to 100 Hz (a fairly wide margin, but higher than the 10 Hz range). This paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9306739 has the resonance of standing humans at 12 to 13 Hz.

Who says it's 60-70 Hz? That's a wavelength of order 5 m... It has to be much higher than that if we are talking resonance...

Up to there, I was thinking the same as you... The story is incredible, as in impossible to believe. The guy played by Clooney had basically stopped moving, yet he unties himself and it's like there's 'gravity' to pull him away. Made no sense. And then the impossible jumps, one after the other... The images were eye candy, but the story? Ah well...